Campaigners take health reform to the streets of Northeast Ohio.
Listen to the health care reform news conference.
(Cleveland) - Nurses are hitting the streets around Greater Cleveland today, going door to door to mobilize support for national health care reform.
It’s an effort by unions in several states to promote reform among voters this weekend.
Organizers met at AMFSCME Local 8 in Downtown Cleveland before heading out to the neighborhoods. Among those speaking to the canvassers was Tom Connelly, a registered nurse from Trumbull Memorial Hospital in Warren.
Tom ConnellyConnelly claims health care costs are the main cause of bankruptcies in the United States.
Connelly says as a medical worker he's tired of seeing people denied health care because they can't afford it, and he sick of seeing families holding fundraisers to pay treatments.
Harriet Applegate & health care workers. Harriet Applegate, executive secretary of the North Shore AFL-CIO Federation of Labor says everyone runs the risk of financial ruin from a devastating illness or accident until there is health care reform.
She contends the vast majority of Americans want a public option, but the only barriers are insurance companies that want to protect huge profits.
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